I actually like the idea of Twitter for general quick whatever but all kidding aside, the reducing everything to a soundbyte thing is really lowering the overall IQ of the planet.
Where GenX and before got critical thinking classes in school, today, the whole of critical thought is being reduced to a sentence. We have a whole generation now that literally can’t hold more in their conscious buffer than that. Which is why Jon Stewart has become so ‘respected’ by the younger set. He speaks in one liners and they can only digest that much.
Witness the hashtag diplomacy.
Dems excel in one line propaganda. Conservative ideas don’t lend themselves to one line encapsulation. So basically, IMO at least, we can’t use the thing nearly as well as the left simply because our ideas can’t physically fit the format.
Norm- I am going to yank your chain.
Do you ever sleep?